Matthew just laid there on his bed staring up at the ceiling. There was so much on his mind because of what his father had told him about his mother. He was not sure if he could believe it or not.
There was something else that was on his mind that dealt with the words that he spoke. 'Even after I protected her from what Flyheight had done to her before. I protected her and the bastard child he forced on her and just up and left after later giving birth to you, my son,' Matthew remembered him saying and it gave him ideas.
'If mother had a child before she had me, then that would mean that I have an older brother or sister out there. Maybe that person could also give me some answers. Problem is that I have no idea where that person is,' he thought rolling onto his side.
Completely giving up on sleep, he got out of his bed and walked out of his room. He could hear his father mumbling something at his computer. He quietly walked up and his father stopped typing and quieted down allowing him to know that his father was aware of his presence.
"What are you still doing up? You should be in bed sleeping. We are going to be leaving in a few days so you should get some rest because we are going to start packing tomorrow," his father said in a rough voice without even looking in Matthew's direction.
"What do you mean? You said that we would be able to stay here longer. We have only been here a month and you are already planning to pack us up and move us out/" Matthew asked in an outraged voice. He happened to like it here. He was actually getting along with people.
His father turned on him angrily. "You will do as I say! We don't exactly have a choice in the matter so you had better accept it!" he yelled standing up and walking past the boy towards his own room. "Get to bed now!" he said before disappearing.
Matthew was angrier than he had ever been before. He was always on the move so he was never able to really make any friends. Then his father said they might stay and he is able to make a few friends and then he breaks the promise. 'My life sucks! Sometimes I wish I was born in a different family,' he thought angrily before sitting down in a chair.
Sakura was pissed off. Matthew had come over a few days ago like he had been doing for several days. Today he happened to mention how his father had made a sudden decision to move. She was hoping for a little more time but she knew they had to finish it soon.
She had been trying for the past few hours but she had been unable to get a hold of her parents. There was too much interference in the air so she had been unable to make contact. 'Why at such an urgent time?' she asked her self slamming her fist down onto a table.
To make it worse, she knew that she couldn't follow or else Zain would get suspicious since she ended going right after them when she just got there. There would be no way to get away with anything after that. He would immediately find out who she actually was.
"I have got to get a hold of them as soon as possible!" she said trying over and over before finally giving up and grabbing her things. "I have to leave for a few hours! Keep out of trouble or you will regret it!" she yelled to the two younger kids before running out and to her car.
Zain was not going to stop. He was well aware that Van was on his way there at that moment. He didn't know how Van could have found out he was there because he was being as safe as he possibly could.
What made it worse was that he was unsure how Van could have gotten so close so quickly and without him even being aware of it. He figured that he would have at least two days before he got there and Zain planned to be out of there by the next day.
He saw Matthew walk into the room with a look like he wasn't going to help any. 'Damn kid. He is as stubborn as his father,' he thought angrily. "Get everything packed. We need to leave tomorrow!" he yelled but Matthew only shook his head.
"I am not going to leave! You can't just keep moving me around whenever you feel like it! I can never make friends because of that. I've had enough!" he yelled before turning around and he ran out of the door as fast as he could.
'Damn it!' he mentally yelled as he dashed after him. He knew he couldn't lose the kid now after all he had done. "Where the hell did he go?" he growled as he looked around but he still couldn't find him. "I will just have to finish it all. I know he will come back," he said turning around and running back to his house.
Matthew just continued to run. He wanted to get away. He hated it when his father continued to pull these sorts of things. Up until recently, he had never had even one friend because he was never in a place long enough to be able to. He thought that this was his chance but he knew he was wrong.
He ran around a corner but suddenly slammed into someone and fell flat to the ground. The other person also fell. He looked towards the person and was prepared to apologize when he realized that it was Liz. "I'm sorry. I didn't know you were there," he said standing up and offering his hand to help her up.
"Um… thank you," she said rubbing her head as she was pulled to her feet. "What are you doing up so late at night?" she asked as they started to walk in no specific direction.
"I was planning to run away but I ran into you. That is weird, I am running away to avoid moving away, and yet I am still going to be leaving. Sometimes I confuse even myself," he said with a laugh.
Liz couldn't help but laugh as well. "That really doesn't make any sense. I don't blame you for running away because of what I have heard you talk about," she said with a small smile as he came to a stop. She walked a few more steps before she realized that he wasn't following. "What's wrong?" she asked curiously.
Matthew shook a little as he remembered all of the things that his father had told him. "I am so angry at him. He tries to rule my life. I sometimes wish that I never had to be related to him. I wish my mother could have taken me with her when she left," he said as he leaned against a wall.
"Bad things happen to good people. I have been raised on that thought for years because of what happened to friends of my family. They did everything to help other and yet they always seemed to have bad things happen to them," she said with a sad look in her eyes.
"Oh yeah, Lina's brother was kidnapped. Is that what you were talking about?" he asked and he saw her shake her head. He was about to say something else when he suddenly heard someone come to a stop near them. He turned and saw Sakura just staring at him.
Zain didn't know how he had gotten so far from his home in the first place. He didn't realize how far he had run after Matthew before he gave up. He knew he had a lot to do, so he would just have to look later.
He reached his home and opened the door surprised to find it unlocked because he was sure that he had locked it when he left. He just shrugged it off and walked into the small home immediately heading towards his room to finish packing.
He walked by the living room before realizing that someone was already there. Knowing it wasn't Matthew, he pulled out a gun only to have it blown out of his hand before he could even aim it.
He held his hand where there was blood coming out from a small cut. He looked towards the source and his eyes widened when he saw none other than his enemy Van Flyheight standing there. 'What the hell! I was sure that I would have more time,' he thought slightly scared since he had a gun pointed at him.
"Hello there," Van said in a dangerous tone before standing up from his seat without taking his aim off of them man. "Bet you never expected to see me again asshole," Van growled being seriously tempted to just kill the man right then but he knew he needed him to do something before he could do that.
"Your ugly face is one I would have preferred to never have to see again. Especially after you murdered my brother," Zain said taking a few steps to the side only to have the gun still pointed at him.
"I told you this once and I will tell you it again, he was a psychopath and needed to be stopped, just like you need to be stopped. Now, give me back my son," Van growled as his hand shook with his attempts not to fire the gun. He wanted to do that ever since his son was first kidnapped.
"I don't know what you are talking about. He is my son. There is no way for you to take him from me," he said before trying to dive into a room only to have a second gun pointed straight at his head, courtesy of Irvine.
The two of them came out of the room before Irvine forced him into a chair and the two men stared down at him as he flinched nervously under the guns being pointed directly at him. "You can't get away with this Flyheight, you know that," he said with a smirk after he regained his composure.
"I don't see any reason that I can't. You are wanted by all the military. Either way, there is no escaping. Either be killed by my hand or being put in prison for the rest of you life with no chance of being released," Van said with a confident look on his face.
"Doesn't mean that you will get your son back. He thinks of you as nothing but a murderer. The man who took his mother and uncle from him," he said in a low tone so no one else could hear but the two men. "I don't know where he is either and I hope he really does run away now," he said with a chuckle.
"We are already well aware of that and someone is bringing him here now," Van said before he heard the door open. I guess that she is here," he said as Sakura came walking in pushing and reluctantly looking Matthew in front of her. "See?" he asked with a smirk.
'I knew that stupid girl was up to something the first time I laid eyes on her,' he thought seeing the same girl he had seen around the past few weeks since she first moved there. He should have realized it immediately but he didn't.
Matthew was confused and scared when he walked into the room to see two men pointing guns at his father. He didn't know how Sakura had convinced him to come back but he somehow gave in. He didn't want to be there right then. "W-what's going on?" he asked in a shaky voice.
Zain looked at the stunned look on Van's face at being able to see his son after sixteen years. He knew he could use this to his advantage considering that he didn't see Fiona anywhere around. "Drake, you remember what I told you about your mother? This man is the reason behind it all," he said with a smirk as Van fumed at the comment.
Matthew's eyes widened as he looked towards Van. "You're Van Flyheight?" he growled out. His mind was telling him to lash out at the man but his heart was holding him back. "Where is my mother and why did you take her from me," he said as he felt tears welling up in his eyes.
"You're wrong," Sakura said finally speaking up after remaining quiet for a while. "I once asked you a question the first day you came here do you remember it?" she asked him and smiled as realization came to him.
"You asked me what I would have thought if someone approached you telling you that you have been living a lie?" he said and everything started to come together. "You were talking about me then, weren't you?" he asked shaking a little.
"Sixteen years ago, you were born by my mother Fiona, and by your true father Van Flyheight. A few days after that, Zain showed up and kidnapped you as revenge for us putting a stop to his brother dreams of world domination," Sakura said as a tear fell at the mere memory of it.
"Don't listen to her Drake. She has been manipulated by Van her whole life. She is only telling you what she has been forced to by Van," Zack said somehow feeling a bit confident despite the situation. "He stole your mother and killed your uncle in the process," Zain yelled almost convincingly.
Matthew had no idea who it was that he should believe. He knew Sakura was an honest person from what he had learned from her, but his father never really gave him much of a reason not to believe him. As far as he knew, both were honest every time that he talk to them.
The sound of the door opening again caught all of their attention as the last of them came walking into the room. "I see I am a bit late," Fiona said looking at everyone around her. She gave Zain death glares when she saw him.
"Not at all baby," Zain said as if it was something that he was used to saying all the time. He just saw Fiona glare at him with a promise of death in her eyes and he shrunk back a bit.
"You are right on time Fiona," Van said with a smile as she walked up to him and stood at his side. He turned to Matthew with a smile on his face. "This is your mother," he said pointing towards Fiona.
Matthew was stunned. She looked almost exactly like he had seen in the dreams he had of his mother. What he didn't understand was how happy she looked with Van and angry he looked at Zain. He no longer knew who to believe in this conversation. "M-mother?" he asked taking a few steps towards her.
"Yes," she said as she looked at her son. He was kind of short for a sixteen year old but so was Van at that age and he had a major growth spurt later. "What Van and Sakura have been telling you is true," she said in a soft voice.
"Sakura?" he asked and Sakura pointed towards herself. "I thought your name was Lina," he said and she just shrugged her shoulder. "What's going on? I don't know who to believe," he said looking at his mother to Van and then to Zain.
"You should believe me," Zain said growing angry. "Don't listen to what all of these people have been putting into your head. I have raised you since you were born since your mother decided to run out on us," he lied although he was panicking because he knew that it wasn't having much of an effect.
"Oh please. The most that happened was you tried to convince me to come with you and when I refused, you knocked me unconscious and stole my son," Fiona growled as she took a few steps away from Zain.
Zain knew that he wouldn't get away with anything anymore. Everyone's attention was on Fiona at that moment so he made his move. He escaped the guns line of fire and pushed Sakura aside before anyone realized what happened. He then had a hold of Matthew. "Now lets see who wins this fight," Zain said with a smirk.
Van was about to point the gun at him but Fiona's hand stopped him out of fear that Zain would hurt their son. All that Van could do at that moment was to glare and hope for a miracle.
Matthew suddenly seemed to know exactly who was telling the truth here. "Please don't," he begged and felt the hold suddenly loosen from around him. He wanted to know what was going on in Zain's mind.
"Oh come on, did you think I would actually hurt my son?" Zain asked lowering the gun from the scared Matthew. "You were almost ready to shoot through him to get to me Flyheight?" he said with a smirk at the even more confused Matthew. "Come on son, lets get out of…" he said before letting go of him fully and falling to the ground holding his nuts.
Liz stood with her leg still up in the air with a smug look on her face. She brought it down and turned to the rest of them and put up a V with her fingers and a broad smile on her face.
Irvine glared at his daughter playfully. "I know I always told you never to do that but for once, I have to say good job. Although you were supposed to stay out of the house because it would be dangerous in here," he said but his words didn't seem to hold any anger in them.
Matthew fell to his knees in fear and was suddenly wrapped up in a hug from his mother. 'My mother?' he asked himself looking at her before turning to look at Van. "Are you really my real father?" he asked when Fiona released him.
"Yes, I am. I know it is strange for you to hear this after years of thinking someone else was but I really am," Van said with a proud tone to his voice. "That is your sister," he said pointing towards Sakura.
"Although I was raised by him, I never considered him family. I always wished for a new family, people that would actually love me," he said sadly. "Is Drake my real name?" he asked softly and Fiona shook her head. "Then what is it?" he asked curiously.
"The name that we gave you when you were born was Matthew. We will go by whatever name you wish to stick with though," Fiona said softly trying not to push her son into something too new for him.
"Matthew," Matthew said trying the name out on his lips. "I really like that name. Maybe all of this will turn out great. Maybe I will get used to having a different father," he said looking at his family. He looked at Zain still holding himself as Aaron stood over him keeping him on the ground. 'Yeah, a real family,' he thought happily with a true smile.
